The Silver Darlings is a 1947 British film about Scottish fishermen, based on a 1941 novel by Neil M.
Catrine and her family, like many other dispossessed Scots, turn their hands to fishing for herring, the "silver darlings" of the title.
Catrine's husband is pressganged into the Royal Navy and dies at sea.
After some time Roddy proposes to Catrine, but her son Finn, now older, is upset about the engagement.
[6] As of 1 April 1950 the film had earned distributor's gross receipts of £33,783 in the UK, of which £21,836 went to the producer.